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In this article, we will use GroupDocs.Assembly to generate a Numbered List report in Email Document format.

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The code uses some of the objects defined in The Business Layer.

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This feature is supported by version 17.8.0 or greater.

Practising the following steps you can create Numbered List Template in MS Outlook 2013.

1. Create a new Email.
2. Write a sentence like “We provide support for the following clients:”.
3. Start numbered list.
4. Save the template.

As a report developer, you are required to represent the following key requirements:

• The report must be in .eml or .msg format.
• It must add email recipient, CSS and subject of the email.
• The report must show the products in the numbered list.

We provide support for the following products:
<<foreach [in products]>><<[NumberOf()]>>. <<[ProductName]>>
<</foreach>>

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For detailed technical information about syntax, expressions and report generation by the engine, please visit: Working with GroupDocs.Assembly Engine.

Please download the sample Numbered List document we created in this article:

• Numbered List.msg

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This feature is supported by version 19.7 or greater.

The GroupDocs.Assembly engine allows restart list numbering within your documents dynamically using «restartNum» tags. In particular, this feature is useful when working with a nested numbered list within a data band.

Assume that we are picking Order and Service classes as defined in the following Custom Objects of our business use case.

Given that orders is an enumeration of Order instances, you could try to use the following template to output information on several orders in one document.

<<foreach [in orders]>><<[Customer.CustomerName]>> (<<[Customer.CustomerContactNumber]>>)
1.	<<foreach [in Services]>><<[ServiceName]>>
<</foreach>><</foreach>>

The generated report will look as follows:

Jane Doe (+9211874)
	1.	Regular Cleaning
	2.	Oven Cleaning
John Smith (+458789)
	3.	Regular Cleaning
	4.	Oven Cleaning
	5.	Carpet Cleaning
John Smith (+458789)
	6.	Regular Cleaning
	7.	Carpet Cleaning
John Smith (+458789)
	8.	Oven Cleaning

However, there would be a single numbered list across all orders, which is not applicable for this scenario. Hence, you can make the list numbering to restart for every order by putting a «restartNum» tag into your template before a corresponding «foreach» tag as follows:

<<foreach [in orders]>><<[ Customer.CustomerName]>> (<<[Customer.CustomerContactNumber]>>)
1.	<<restartNum>><<foreach [in Services]>><<[ServiceName]>>
<</foreach>><</foreach>>

 Then, the generated report will look as follows:

Jane Doe (+9211874)
	1.	Regular Cleaning
	2.	Oven Cleaning
John Smith (+458789)
	1.	Regular Cleaning
	2.	Oven Cleaning
	3.	Carpet Cleaning
John Smith (+458789)
	1.	Regular Cleaning
	2.	Carpet Cleaning
John Smith (+458789)
	1.	Oven Cleaning

Please download the sample Numbered List template we created in this article:

• Numbered List_RestartNum.msg